Different from other law firms is that a few years ago we switched from an hourly rate firm to a flat fee per tier firm to save our clients money. Let me give you an example. In a divorce, let’s say a contested divorce, we go through filing the preliminary documents and then engaging in Discovery. In the state of Georgia, Discovery is about six months. So, we provide a fee that covers the client from the initial filings through the discovery period because a lot of times we’re able to resolve the case during that period. And if we are, then that’s the fee, and you’re out the door. However, if we are unable to resolve it at that juncture, then the next step is mediation, so we charge a separate fee for that. If we are unable to resolve it at mediation, then we are looking at a final trial. There is a fee for trial prep and trial. We find that there’s no reason to charge a client for everything if they don’t need all the services. Everyone knows that fees can get expensive when you’re talking about hiring a law firm, so our goal is that we hope that we’re helping individuals by providing this fee structure.

The name of the firm is Atlanta Family and Immigration Law. We revised the name of the firm a few years back from the Law Office of Judes to specifically Atlanta Family and Immigration Law because we wanted potential clients to know what services we provide. Not many firms, I can say in the Metro Atlanta area, provide the service that we provide. We represent folks in both family law cases and immigration cases; however, we also work in the intersection of family and immigration. So that means that most times we represent clients in both cases, so we have an immigration case and a family law case going forward simultaneously. What that means is that a lot of clients come to this firm because they are married to a U.S citizen and they are a foreigner, or they are a foreigner married to a U.S citizen. So we represent both. However, things did not work out, and now they’re going through a divorce but that U.S citizen spouse petitioned for them to be in the United States and provided them status. So now what happens when your petitioner is gone and you are the beneficiary in your case is still pending before immigration or USCIS? This is where we come in. We try to assist you in maintaining your status in the United States while going through a divorce. In addition to that, I actually wrote a book about that and we released that earlier this year where it talks about Through The Eyes of an immigration attorney, maintaining your immigration status while going through a divorce and finding Freedom.

The firm also handles landlord-tenant cases. We have tried to not handle those cases as frequently anymore. However, we understand that there is a need for these cases or representation for these cases in the state of Georgia because of the way that the landlord-tenant laws are written. Tenants are really at a disadvantage in the state of Georgia, and that is why we continue to represent tenants in specific cases when they need that assistance.